There was a rare wrestling decision Wednesday evening at Birmingham Groves.

For the first time in a number of years, the host Falcons managed to defeat district rival Seaholm in a dual match. Groves rallied from a 30-18 deficit to win win four of the final six matches, holding on in the final bout — at 130 pounds — to post a 40-39 victory.

Depending on which coach you talked to, it was either three years or eight years since Groves last defeated Seaholm in wrestling. The bottom line is the Falcons won bragging rights by a single point.

“I think it’s been about eight years since we last lost to Groves,” said Seaholm head coach Neil Tuomi. “I was expecting a close match, and I thought we were going to win.

“The difference is we got pinned and they didn’t,” he said. “It’s like the third meet this year that we got pinned in some matches that I didn’t think we’d get pinned on, otherwise we would have won. We’re younger, so we have to learn that.”

It was close all the way as neither team held more than a 12-point advantage.

Each team registered five pins, one decision and earned one victory by void. The difference was Groves freshman Andrew Gorosh defeated Seaholm sophomore Jackson Albright via major decision at 103 pounds to score a four-point win.

Seaholm’s decision — worth three points — came from sophomore Nick Law at 130 over Groves sophomore Micah Mydlowski. Groves held a 40-36 lead heading into that match and the Maples needed to win by more than a regular decision to earn the tie or score the come-from-behind win.

It never materialized for the Maples.

Mydlowski held a 2-0 lead after the first period and hiked to margin to 3-2 after two periods. However, Law rallied for a take down and near pin halfway through the final period, but couldn’t get the fall Seaholm needed to win. Law finished with a 7-3 winning decision.

Groves veteran head coach Joseph Jones was satisfied to end the losing skid to Seaholm. However, he felt the Falcons should have won by a larger margin.

“Beating Seaholm is a great thing, we haven’t done that in about three years, But, we did not wrestle to the level I wanted them to wrestle at,” said Smith, whose team wrestled without senior captain Ethan Anderson (160 pounds) who was out taking a test. “We wrestled very, very poorly. It was not up to my standards. We’re better than that.

“The kids who should have won didn’t, and the kids who should have stepped up finally stepped up,” he said. “I expected us to be a little better. I just thought we could have wrestled a little better than what we did today. ”